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SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Major Chinese fund companies announced a reduction in fees for a batch of equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on Wednesday, intensifying price competition in the rapidly expanding $400 billion sector of the market. The move to cut management and custodian fees came a day after Wu Qing,…

Verily, Alphabet’s life sciences group, is preparing to detach from Google.Verily has told employees it ultimately intends to become an independent company.Staff were recently told about “an essential stepping stone” to leaving Alphabet.Verily, Alphabet’s life sciences subsidiary, has set a deadline of December 16 to sever multiple ties to Google,…

By Pavel Polityuk, Vladimir Soldatkin and Nina Chestney (Reuters) – Russia told Austria it is suspending gas deliveries from Saturday in a development that signals a fast approaching end of Moscow’s last remaining gas flows to Europe. The suspension means Russia will now only supply significant gas volumes to Hungary…

Investing.com– Most Asian stocks rose on Friday, tracking strength in Wall Street after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates as expected, while anticipation of more fiscal stimulus in China also buoyed local markets. Regional markets took positive cues from a record-high close on the and the , as markets were…